Attention This Week Is On Ufo Sightings Fyi

Seen any bright lights in the sky lately? Or glowing objects streaking across the heavens?

The Pennsylvania Association for the Study of the Unexplained (PASU), the state's major clearing house for reports of unidentified flying objects (UFO), wants to know about it if you did.

PASU is participating in the first national UFO Information Week, which runs today through Saturday.

The UFO Hotline (412-838-7768) in the PASU office in Greensburg, Westmoreland County, will be available 24 hours a day to take reports of sightings of unusual objects in the skies. Reports can also be mailed to PASU, 6 Oakhill Ave., Greensburg 15601.

PASU, which is affiliated with the Texas-based Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), scientifically investigates sightings throughout the state.

Stan Gordon, the electronics technician who founded PASU, says most of them can be traced to meteors, meteorites or space debris.

On June 21, for example, PASU received reports from across the state of 8 to 12 bright reddish-orange lights streaking across the sky. A check with the NORAD radar station atop Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado revealed the objects were pieces of the Soviet satellite Cosmos 1530, which broke up as it re- entered the Earth's atmosphere.

But, as Gordon put it in a news release, some of the reports remain "scientifically baffling," and that's what makes UFOs so interesting.